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A good neighborhood : a novel / Therese Anne Fowler.

by Fowler, Therese.

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Center Point Large Print, 2020.

Neighbors -- Fiction.

Neighborhoods -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Mothers and sons -- Fiction.

Racially mixed families -- Fiction.

North Carolina -- Fiction.

9781432872601 (trade pbk.)

Large print ed.

497 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.

"In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who's headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans--a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter--raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers. A Good Neighborhood asks big questions about life in America today--what does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye?--as it explores the effects of class, race, and heartrending love in a story that's as provocative as it is powerful."--Publisher.

Domestic fiction.

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